RIAA and MPAA Can’t Stop BitTorrent, Study Finds

Courtesy TorrentFreak  Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:03

Record labels and movie studios are willing to pay serious cash to protect their content from being shared on BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks.

They have paid millions of dollars to anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender who in return promise to do all they can to distribute fake and polluted downloads.

According to a recently published paper by Prithula Dhungel, Di Wub and Keith Ross, these effort are a waste of time and money.

In the paper titled...


 

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